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"14 Billie Holiday Quotes & Sayings

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Born: 7 April 1915 | Musician |

You can't copy anybody and end with anything. If you copy, it means you're working without any real feeling. No two people on earth are alike, and it's got to be that way in music or it isn't music.

You can't Copy anybody End Working without
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If I'm going to sing like someone else, then I don't need to sing at all.

I'm going Sing Someone else Need
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I never hurt nobody but myself and that's nobody's business but my own.

Never Hurt nobody Myself Business
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You've got to have something to eat, and a little love in your life before you can hold still for any damn body's sermon on how to behave.

Have something Eat Little love Your life
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If I don't have friends, then I ain't got nothing

Have friends Got nothing
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There's no damn business like show business - you have to smile to keep from throwing up.

Show business You have Smile Throwing up
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Love is like a faucet: it turns on and off.

Love Faucet Turns on Off
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The difficult I'll do right now. The impossible will take a little while.

The difficult Right now Impossible Take
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I don't think I ever sing the same way twice. The blues is sort of a mixed-up thing. You just have to feel it. Anything I do sing is part of my life.

Think Ever sing Same way Blues
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The whole basis of my singing is feeling. Unless I feel something, I can't sing.

Whole basis My singing Feeling
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If nobody can learn from the past, then there's no point in raking it up.

If nobody Can learn The past No point
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When you sing, always tell the truth.

You sing Tell The truth
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You can get in just as much trouble by being dumb and innocent as you can by breaking the law.

Much trouble Being dumb Innocent Breaking
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God has blessed you when he lets you believe in somebody.

God Blessed you You believe Somebody
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Billie Holiday Quotes & Sayings